I've heard of 3 hypothesized "basic drives" for living things: seek pleasure, avoid pain, minimize energy. I don't know that any of them is based on anything more solid than Freud-level hand-waving, but I think there's a fourth one: regulate uncertainty.
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no, I just meant fair question - and/but so deeply embedded I'm not sure I can easily pull it out. It's in the concept of homeostasis - see nice definition here https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi2s.anu.edu.au%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2009%2F10%2Fcybernetic_glossary.pdf … (from Stafford's student and life partner Allenna Leonard)
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I mean, there's a whole body of work in Beer called variety engineering, and it's all founded on Ashby's Requisite Variety and the Conant-Ashby Good Regulatory Theorem (every good regulator must be a model of the system it controls)...
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